2026 Sascha Hilgenfeldt: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	37	2348	2191	845	746	176	9009

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the understanding of bubble dynamics foam dynamics including structure drainage, coarsening, aging, and instabilities bubblepowered microfluidics and mechanics, structure, and statistics of biological cells and tissues

Overview

Sascha Hilgenfeldt is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on related subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films.

Their work covers several main research topics, including:

Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
Granular flow and fluidized beds
Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
Material Dynamics and Properties
Theoretical and Computational Physics

Some of their recent papers include:

"Gas-Liquid Foam Dynamics: From Structural Elements to Continuum Descriptions" (2022), published in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
"An unrecognized inertial force induced by flow curvature in microfluidics" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Exceptionally dense and resilient critically jammed polydisperse disk packings" (2024), published in Soft Matter
"Simple, General Criterion for Onset of Disclination Disorder on Curved Surfaces" (2020), published in Physical Review Letters
"Structural Measures as Guides to Ultrastable States in Overjammed Packings" (2022), published in Physical Review Letters

Hilgenfeldt frequently publishes in outlets such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review Letters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Soft Matter, and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Frequent co-authors in Hilgenfeldt's research include Siddhansh Agarwal, Mattia Gazzola, Sangwoo Kim, Angus McMullen, and Jasna Brujić.

In 2016, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for contributions related to the understanding of bubble dynamics, foam dynamics including structure, drainage, coarsening, aging, and instabilities, bubble-powered microfluidics, and the mechanics, structure, and statistics of biological cells and tissues.

Best Publications

Single bubble sonoluminescence

Michael P. Brenner;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse

1332
Citations
Controlled vesicle deformation and lysis by single oscillating bubbles

Philippe Marmottant;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

1009
Citations
A model for large amplitude oscillations of coated bubbles accounting for buckling and rupture

Philippe Marmottant;Philippe Marmottant;Sander van der Meer;Marcia Emmer;Michel Versluis

864
Citations
A Generalized View of Foam Drainage: Experiment and Theory

Stephan A. Koehler;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Howard A. Stone

531
Citations
Phase diagrams for sonoluminescing bubbles

Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse;Michael P. Brenner

437
Citations
Dynamics of coarsening foams: accelerated and self-limiting drainage.

Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Stephan A. Koehler;Howard A. Stone

329
Citations
A simple explanation of light emission in sonoluminescence

Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

314
Citations
Sonoluminescing Air Bubbles Rectify Argon

Detlef Lohse;Michael P. Brenner;Todd F. Dupont;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

310
Citations
Analysis of Rayleigh–Plesset dynamics for sonoluminescing bubbles

Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Michael P. Brenner;Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

286
Citations
Liquid Flow through Aqueous Foams: The Node-Dominated Foam Drainage Equation

Stephan A. Koehler;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Howard A. Stone

260
Citations
A bubble-driven microfluidic transport element for bioengineering

Philippe Marmottant;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

230
Citations
An Accurate von Neumann's Law for Three-Dimensional Foams

Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Andrew M. Kraynik;Stephan A. Koehler;Howard A. Stone

177
Citations
Response of bubbles to diagnostic ultrasound: a unifying theoretical approach

Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse;M. Zomack

152
Citations
Drainage of single Plateau borders: direct observation of rigid and mobile interfaces.

Stephan A. Koehler;Stephan A. Koehler;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Eric R. Weeks;Howard A. Stone

150
Citations
Inert gas accumulation in sonoluminescing bubbles

Detlef Lohse;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

148
Citations
Ultrasound-induced microbubble coalescence

Michiel Postema;Philippe Marmottant;Charles T. Lancée;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

146
Citations
Foam drainage on the microscale

S.A. Koehler;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;H.A. Stone

137
Citations
Sound scattering and localized heat deposition of pulse-driven microbubbles

Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse;Michael Zomack

132
Citations
Size-sensitive sorting of microparticles through control of flow geometry

Cheng Wang;Shreyas V. Jalikop;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

131
Citations
Microfluidics with ultrasound-driven bubbles

P.G.M. Marmottant;J.P. Raven;Johannes G.E. Gardeniers;Johan G. Bomer

126
Citations
Phase diagrams for sonoluminescing bubbles

Detlef Lohse;Michael P. Brenner;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Lohse University of Twente

Philippe Marmottant Grenoble Alpes University

Cheng Wang University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Howard A. Stone Princeton University

Michael P. Brenner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Michel Versluis University of Twente

Siegfried Grossmann Philipp University of Marburg

Richard W. Carthew Northwestern University

Nico de Jong Delft University of Technology

Stephen H. Davis Northwestern University

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